Australia

The game of two-up has found its place at the heart of Australia's cultural history...

Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities...

Focusing on the victims, perpetrators and vicinities of crime, City of Shadows introduced the world...

For decades Helen Baldwin has been painting outback Australia and the Aboriginal people. Her travels...

In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul when it...

"...It is evident that there is a possibility that an innocent person has been convicted...

In 2018 Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most powerful Catholic, was found guilty of five sexual...

In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western...

A strong sense of 'otherness' defines Canberra to a point where there is a smugness,...

Tales of Victorian-era madness have imbued twenty-first century minds with images of inconvenient husbands and...

A classic in its own right, this personal and public memoir by one of Australia's...

There is more to Australia s bushranging history than Ned Kelly, Ben Hall and Captain...

There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy...

In this gorgeous and compact book, Samantha Martin - the 'Bush Tukka Woman' - shares...

For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal people have lived, and lived well, in Australia....

Bush Remedies is a readable and well-researched introduction to the huge variety of native plants...

: The Aboriginal Presence now comprises a foreword which examines recent research in Aboriginal studies,...

Brisbane: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares tells the stories of little-known, and rather peculiar aspects...

I keep coming back to the light of Brisbane. If you are born into it,...

The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet...

Professor Marcia Langton's 2012 Boyer Lectures discuss the dependency of Aboriginal businesses and not-for-profit corporations...

Blood on the Wattle draws together, in a single volume, most of the information about...

The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon...

In 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and...

In Black Chicks Talking nine young Aboriginal women, successful in a variety of professions, tell...

WINNER, Prize for Australian History in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2012 WINNER, History Book...

Bill was massive. He had power, intelligence and unmatched courage. In performance and character he...